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Event: The Data Imperative: Libraries and Research Data | nostuff.org

DataShare — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:28:43 GMT

Blog post from Chris Keene on the "The Data Imperative: Libraries and Research Data" event held at Oxford in June.

Interesting summaries and comments on speakers - Paul Jeffries, Luis Martinez, Sally Rumsey, Alma Swan, Simon Hodson, Martin Lewis.

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Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research

DataShare — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:13:36 GMT

This government document (2007) guides institutions and researchers in responsible research practices, endorsed by both national research funders: National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council.

Significantly, it says that INSTITUTIONS MUST: "... have a policy on the retention of materials and research data; ... provide facilities for the safe and secure storage of research data and for maintaining records of where research data is stored; ... have a policy on the ownership of research materials and data during and following the research project; ... have a policy on the ownership of, and access to, databases and archives that is consistent with confidentiality requirements, legislation, privacy rules and other guidelines."

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Launch of UKDA-store

DataShare — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:53:41 GMT

UKDA has built a fedora-based repository for self-archiving of ESRC-funded data outputs that do not fit the ESDS collections development policy, allowing a larger body of research data to be shared.

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Data Seal of Approval

DataShare — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:58:42 GMT

The Social Science Data Archive, DANS, Netherlands, has published quality guidelines for data archiving and "making data future-proof." An innovation is that the 17 guidelines apply in turn to data archives, but also data producers and data users.

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UKDA-store to be launched : JISC

DataShare — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:42:55 GMT

Following on from the StORe project, a JISC press release announces that UKDA-store will be launched on 30 June 2008 at the NCRM Methods Festival in Oxford. UKDA-store uses repository software to aid researchers to deposit data with the UK Data Archive and to self-archive their data. Astrid Wissenburg, Director of Communication and Information at the ESRC is quoted as saying that "The ESRC welcomes the creation of UKDA-store as a valuable tool for the archiving of social science data, and is complementary to the ESRC's publications repository."

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